Re: If 12 men and 16 women can do a piece of work in 5 days and 13 men and 24 women can do it in 4 days, how long will 7

This is a great question to teach the value of approximation and leveraging the answer choices! Doing a problem like this with rote math is not the "GMAT" way of thinking about this problem. We start with 12 men and 16 women, and they do it in 5 days. But 13 men and 24 women can do it in 4...